Georgia implemented a suite of election reforms in the years since the mess in 2020. And one of those reforms was to do a state-wide, by-hand, recount after the first count was done. And guess what it showed this time?
Maybe.
Of course, Democrats and leftists (but I repeat myself) claimed that the reforms put in place for 2024 was “voter suppression” and in particular the by-hand recount would somehow take votes away from minorities.
The recount plan was passed in September by the five members of the State Election Board in a 3-2 vote to require a complete recount by hand after the voting machines were used to tabulate the state’s vote. The new rule required the precinct poll managers to unseal the ballot boxes, and re-tabulate everything to make sure that the by-hand count matches what the machines counted. The courts, though, prevented this full plan from being implemented.
So, the final method of double-checking the results was a bit different than the suggested method. Instead of recounting the more than five million votes, the Election Board did a sort of audit and recounted a purportedly representative group of votes. And so, they recounted three-quarters of a million votes instead of the whole kit and kaboodle.
The results of this recount is now in and there was barely any difference between what the machines counted and what the hand count found. Though, Trump did gain a few votes.
According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution:
A hand-count audit of Georgia’s presidential election reported miniscule discrepancies from the machine count, confirming President-elect Donald Trump’s victory over Vice President Kamala Harris. The results of the manual review released Wednesday showed 11 more votes for Trump and six fewer for Harris out of nearly 750,000 ballots reviewed by election officials across the state. “Georgia’s election systems are our nation’s best,” Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said. “This audit shows that our system works and that our county election officials conducted a secure, accurate election — they are the cream of the crop.” The tiny difference between the two ballot counts was largely caused by human error during the hand-counting process, Raffensperger said.
Trump added 17 new votes in this process when it was done. Harris lost six. So, not really a big deal, there.
The state also defied the left’s lies in another way. Liberals said the election reforms would tamp down voter turnout because the Republican-controlled government was “making it harder to vote.” It turns out voter participation soared and 5.29 million Georgians voted this year. In 2020 that number didn’t even hit five million. The primaries also saw a higher participation rate.
While I am not prepared to say that Georgia has fixed everything, it certainly is a good sign that they have done something right.
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